So, by now everyone knows that I have moved to India. Its common to have helpers (servants) in India who help you maintain your daily chores and lavish lifestyle that most Indians enjoy. I was wondering what it must be to live their life even for a day.... and the more I looked our own "helpers" life closely, whose name is Pankaj bhai more it resembled mine when I was in San Francisco. I was Pankaj bhai in the U.S but a high end one.
Poor guy.... the moment he walks in that door at 8:30 in the morning, he is already bombarded with requests and favors of what needs to be done. I specifically recall walking into my work, and the moment I usually did, i had people asking me for favors the moment I stepped in..."Falguni, this needs to be done, how do I do this". Luckily, I could stop my coworkers and ask them to back off and come back to me when I had a moment to breathe the reality that I had just arrived at work, but Pankaj bhai does not have that option. The moment he walks in through that door, his work begins right then and there.
I had the opportunity to chillax at work and be on facebook but this guy is pretty much on his feet all day long and working his ass off without a complaint. And he is always smiling, love that about him. I give it to him. You should have seen me at work. Coworkers trembled approaching me cause they all knew they were going to get yelled at, in a loving way :) I respect the fact that Pankaj bhai has to leave his family in the village to come to the city and find work, sort of what mostly all hard working Indians have to do, may that be having to leave India and move to U.S to support your family or may that be leave a small village to move to a bigger city in search for work. In short, no matter how you see life, I think we all, middle class working folks live a life in Pankaj bhai's shoes. Some have it easier, some have it more tedious but regardless we all are trying to live a life, make some money and have a roof over our head and people around who love us. Lets not take our servants/ our helpers for granted; they too happen to be a reflection of our lives, of what we might have gone through in our lives or are going through in that case. We all are working for the "man/ the money" and its never easy when we don't have a choice.
I don't know why I wanted to blog about Pankaj bhai but I guess I just wanted to bring awareness to those people/ helpers/ servants who make our lives much more easier for us by working ten times harder for us and yet only earning less than half the price that they are worth of. Let's appreciate them, let's be nice to them cause somewhere within all of us, lies a Pankaj bhai.
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